Is it possible to have Trainz 22+ open at My Content instead of Purchases
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More clarity needed in your question, please.
Which list? Content Manager, Trainz Store or Routes/Session in the Driver/Surveyor selection?
As a guess do you mean the line of routes with coloured bars (at the top of their thumbnails) when you select the Driver/Surveyor option from the Trainz Main Window? If so then no, the list will always default to that view. I always start by typing in the first few letters of a search request in the Search text box at the top of the screen. This narrows down the list.
If it helps take a look the Trainz Wiki page at Route_and_Session_Basics.
Those screens are meant to be an online store interface as well as seeing installed content. So the powers that be chose to default to the purchased filter setting. Compared to the Content Store interface, it works better at giving the user more information about what items you are about to install.
If you don't play Trs 22 often the you start trains see top of screen routes then to the left purchased. This what I would like to change because it forces another unnecessary click by me. much easier if it reverts to the last setting. I don't open trains 22 GOLD PASS to purchase items every time I open it as I go to My Content. Its like the Navigate to command to many menus.
I do more creating than purchasing!
Rubbish its just plain advertising.
Why would it be advertising to list what you have already purchased? On the contrary, it serves as a reference so you can see if you have downloaded and installed all your purchases..
Yes what I haven't purchased also so it is advertising pure & simple so why can't it be change to last used.
If you don't play Trs 22 often the you start trains see top of screen routes then to the left purchased. This what I would like to change because it forces another unnecessary click by me. much easier if it reverts to the last setting. I don't open trains 22 GOLD PASS to purchase items every time I open it as I go to My Content. Its like the Navigate to command to many menus.
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I'm in this boat. it's an unnecessary extra step every time I go to test an engine in a controlled environment to filter down beyond all the junk I will never use with my trainz+ subscription in order to find my own routes.
I really don't see this as a major issue worthy of N3V dropping everything else to "fix" when nothing is actually broken. It has never bothered me but, obviously, it does bother some users.
My preferred method of loading routes and session into Driver and Surveyor these days is to use Content Manager, not the Surveyor/Driver main screen.
I have created a CM filter for all my current routes and sessions. After starting CM I:-
My preferred method of loading routes and session into Driver and Surveyor these days is to use Content Manager, not the Surveyor/Driver main screen.
I have created a CM filter for all my current routes and sessions. After starting CM I:-
- load the filter then
- right click the route/session I need then
- select the option Open then
- select the relevant option (Open Asset in Driver or Edit Asset in Surveyor) from the drop down menu.
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I'm disappointed that 22 doesn't remember the "installed" setting i use every time I run the program. If I want to see my purchased routes, I can change it myself.
I admit I'm often annoyed that doing things in the modern versions of Trainz takes more mouse clicking than it did in older versions.
I admit I'm often annoyed that doing things in the modern versions of Trainz takes more mouse clicking than it did in older versions.
My, aren't you charming. You are free to have any opinion you like but what I said is true because it is the answer I was given by N3V 5 years ago when I asked the same question. BTW, Trainz has had advertising in game since N3V took over from Auran. Believe it or not, they are trying to make money.
I was told that the menu we see now, which came out in TRS19, was still WIP and the issues we asked for, including the one you are kvetching about, were there back then.
It appears that the main menu is receiving an update soon™. Whatever they give us is unknown at this time though.
It appears that the main menu is receiving an update soon™. Whatever they give us is unknown at this time though.
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As for why it doesn’t remember the last tab you used, the answer appears to be: because it doesn’t.
The software simply doesn’t store that state, and it makes no particular effort to pretend otherwise.
So each launch begins with Purchases, whether or not you’ve ever wanted to see Purchases in your life.
Clicking over to My Content remains a daily ritual, like brushing your teeth or dismissing Windows Update prompts.
If N3V ever adds a “remember last tab” option, it will be a notable event.
So, to answer the question, sure... it is possible.
Is it implemented to do so? Nope.
It would be a matter of the programming altered to achieve this.
That is not a user feature available now, it is something NV3 has to do.
The software simply doesn’t store that state, and it makes no particular effort to pretend otherwise.
So each launch begins with Purchases, whether or not you’ve ever wanted to see Purchases in your life.
Clicking over to My Content remains a daily ritual, like brushing your teeth or dismissing Windows Update prompts.
If N3V ever adds a “remember last tab” option, it will be a notable event.
So, to answer the question, sure... it is possible.
Is it implemented to do so? Nope.
It would be a matter of the programming altered to achieve this.
That is not a user feature available now, it is something NV3 has to do.
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IsambardKingdomBrunel
Joined June 2001
I agree with the OP, it's a pain in the rear end. Needs an option to set default launch tab.
That was something I asked for when Tony replied to the thread saying that the menu is WIP.
I think I had also asked for a recently used tab. That would be more useful once we've started using the program a lot especially when working on a route and session for months at a time.
At least a bookmark or something, right?
Yes, something like that or even add that option to the scroll box.
